Hello guys,
this will be my first post ever, so don't bang me for asking, I did my homework and I haven't found anything similar.
After long and painful decisions, I bought FlyerLE to fly my Canon XL H1 through my weddings. Everything was OK
until I discovered that I cannot move anywhere because I'm not able to manage anything what was written and spoken about
DB. So, I'm thinking about throwing everything to garbage and forget about it all.
XL series camcorders are known that their weird about weight distribution. After five years of working with XL series I became familiar with that, also with Canon's dumb habit of adding approximately 1kg to this line of camcorders every year.
So, now we ended in about 5kg with basic setup (largest battery, stock lens). Reading brochures, contacting Tiffen, I found out that this weight was too much for Pilot (don't blame me, this is my first ever stabilizer) but Flyer should take it fine. Everywhere was written that camera capacity of this system is around 8kg, so I thought that I have much of reserve left. Now I have found that sled's weight isn't included in that 8kg of system/arm capacity, and with my camcorder,
base monitor and one 0.6kg battery I founded myself @7,9kg what would be near limit of what arm can support.
The question is whether I'm right? If I add eventually some weight to the monitor, I would quickly jump out of weight limit, right?
Second, again thanks to Canon, this camera has CG approx. on lens mount. It's far far in front of mounting plate center.
If mounted few milimetres back (in order to achieve DB) with that battery I have (0,6kg V-mount) It is impossible to achieve DB without adding weight to monitor.
I cannot add too much, or I'll be out of the Flyer's range.
Basically, It is impossible for me to move away from achieving SB with that camcorder/battery...
What I'm interested is if someone on this forum flies XL H1 on FlyerLE...any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom
